heckle
Example Sentences
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“Tiger With Cubs” depicts a tigress nursing her young under pine trees as magpies heckle them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
Passersby who witnessed this altercation began to heckle the police, demanding they take the handcuffs off Smith.
From Salon • May 13, 2025
"If someone heckles me, I can heckle them back... always politely though."
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2023
Now Israel's minister for police, Itamar Ben-Gvir was on hand to keep order as some 30,000 people took part in the annual event that he used to heckle as an "abomination".
From Reuters • Jun. 1, 2023
When he told them to leave the pitch, they did so quite cheerfully and went to sit in the stands to heckle everyone else.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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